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The Tourism Authority of Thailand argues why shutting down elephant tourism camps in South-east Asia isn’t a sensible solution, and urges proper solutions and management practices to be put into place to handle the problems surrounding elephant tourism, citing recommendations from the Asian Captive Elephant Working Group (ACEWG).

As travel makes a comeback, Prantik Mazumdar, managing director, CXM Group of dentsu Singapore shares six ways to help brands reimagine a stronger future for travel and hospitality

Tim Hentschel, CEO and co-founder of HotelPlanner, explains why the hospitality industry's recovery from Covid-19 will come in unpredictable waves, and how companies can leverage online touchpoints to keep their brand top of mind

Angel Llull Mancas, Booking.com's vice president and managing director Asia-Pacific, discusses why stakeholders need to have a unified approach to help support Asia-Pacific travel sector's walk towards recovery

There’s a very simple conservation strategy that I believe in. Essentially, it is based on making animals worth more alive than dead. An essential part...

As the pandemic accelerates the adoption of alternative payment methods, ensuring a payment system that is not only seamless and secure, but tailored to local preferences is crucial to drive aviation's recovery, says Roc Harry, head of global enterprise eCommerce, APAC, Worldpay from FIS.

With vaccine rollouts fuelling the restart of travel, and more destinations around the world reopening to vaccinated travellers, the hospitality industry will need to adapt to a changing travel landscape in order to ride the recovery wave, says Joon Aun Ooi, president, Asia Pacific – Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.

Singapore Institute of Technology's associate professor of hospitality business, Detlev Remy, discusses the importance of upskilling today's hospitality workforce and how that can benefit them and the hospitality industry of the future.

With the pandemic rewriting the playbook of travel providers, Nuno Guerreiro, regional director, South Asia Pacific at Booking.com, shares the keys to unlocking future growth opportunities in the new normal

JLL Asia Pacific’s head of advisory & asset management, Xander Nijnens, shares how consumer-branded residential projects are gaining popularity, among other trends in today’s luxury living sector